If you were in a need a reminder to turn your clocks back at 2 a.m. Sunday, it could be a boom you heard less than an hour before was able to assist. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the ...

What Happened: You know that earsplitting, window-rattling BOOM that planes make when they break the sound barrier? The one that got them banned from flying over land? Well, it might be a thing of the ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) experimental supersonic aircraft took to the skies for the first time on October 28, 2025 from Lockheed Martin's famously secret Skunk Works at the US ...

The Ojai City Council voted unanimously on Oct. 21 to work with researchers on monitoring SpaceX launches. Ojai is the first city in the county to monitor sonic booms, according to officials from ...

Saturday's highly anticipated Homecoming game between Jackson State University and Alabama State University will feature new uniforms for the Tigers' football team. Inspired by the Sonic Boom of the ...

Jackson State's band, the Sonic Boom of the South, is preparing a special performance for the homecoming game. The halftime show will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jackson Five drum majors.

Skeleton’s Lair is returning for its 26th year of horror and fun, but with two extra special guests. Mike Giannelli and CJ Graham will be making appearances during different weekends throughout the ...

Evening rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, are a sight to see. NASA and SpaceX will launch a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The ...

Some Southern California residents have reported feeling the shake and hearing a sonic boom as a SpaceX launch took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket launched ...

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